A small piece of Denver’s history is for sale. Last week the six-bedroom, three-and-a-quarter-bath home at 1790 Forest Parkway hit the market for $1,900,000. The 9,300-square-foot home was built in 1931 by architect Gilbert Charles Jaka, who two years later designed the Oxford Hotel’s Art Deco Cruise Room cocktail lounge,…
The story starts off something like this: One day, Reed Weimer’s dad came home with an old Army Jeep, maybe from the Korean War, that had been painted tomato red. Weimer’s dad told his son he could drive the clunker if he checked the oil regularly. Sure, Weimer said. But Weimer…
Get excited, Gryffindors. (And you, too, Slytherins, if you can stomach excitement.) The Colorado Symphony is adding another show to its highly popular (and currently sold-out) Movie at the Symphony: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, during which the symphony will play the film’s score in its entirety. The added…
Another month, another reminder of just how expensive it’s gotten to live in Denver. August’s Apartment List rent report brings good news – sort of. Median rent increased .2 percent from June to July in Denver, which is slightly less scary than that figure has been lately. Now here’s the…
Among the droves of non-natives relocating to Colorado for our beautiful, expansive outdoors are thirteen brown and black bears rescued from deplorable conditions in Ohio. The bears, which include several cubs, were relocated to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg in late May, several years after Ohio passed a law that…
The Sie FilmCenter gets it. “We understand, it can be a gamble to walk into your local independent theater and buy a ticket for film you don’t know anything about,” says JoAnna Cintron, the Denver Film Society’s spokeswoman. “It can be scary. There might be subtitles (shudder)… or possibly an actor you haven’t…
It was a cause for celebration. On Monday, July 11, Aurora City Council tabled a measure that would have allowed Denver Meadows RV Park owner Shawn Lustigman to sell the twenty-acre plot of land between Interstate 225 and Colfax Avenue – which happens to be by the R Line light…
Though it’s no national model for policing, as Mayor Michael Hancock claimed in his State of the City speech, the Denver Police Department under Chief Robert White has made a concerted effort to change after being named the worst department in the country for excessive force six years ago. As…
On Tuesday during a Facebook Live, Kyle Clark, everyone’s favorite snowy-patio-furniture dissing, colorful-sports-jacket-wearing 9News anchor, announced a new project months in the making. Debuting August 5, Next with Kyle Clark will air at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday after 9News’ regular 5 p.m. newscast. It’s a departure for 9News, or any…
On Monday the Navajo Nation formally endorsed a Superfund cleanup of contaminated mines in southwestern Colorado – including an Environmental Protection Agency-caused spill at the Gold King Mine site that released millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River last August, tainting land stretching from Silverton down to…
If civic engagement is a game, Denver City Council scored majorly on Monday night. All members but one were present for the council’s first public-comment session — an initiative championed by first-term councilman Paul Kashmann and approved in May — during which residents are allowed to speak about a topic…
Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill is a publicly traded company. Like all publicly traded companies, its executives answer to shareholders. When sales decline, as they did in the aftermath of the norovirus outbreak at Chipotle restaurants that sickened almost 400 customers, the company has to appease its shareholders with new ideas…
Many women could be credited with paving Hillary Clinton’s road to the White House, but none are as familiar to Coloradans as Pat Schroeder, the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado — who considered her own run for president almost thirty years ago. Schroeder formally endorsed Clinton for president…
Donald Trump would probably tell you he had a good day Friday. Others might have a different take. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in Denver Friday morning at the Western Conservative Summit, “the largest gathering of conservatives outside Washington, DC,” its website boasts. Trump tried to sell the crowd on…
Your Choice Colorado announced today that it will not pursue a November ballot initiative that would have allowed grocery stores to sell full-strength beer and wine as soon as they get their liquor licenses. The decision comes after Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill on June 10 that allows grocery…
Several victims have been transported to area hospitals after shots were fired at 15th and Wynkoop streets around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday. Streets are closed, and the area of 15th and Wynkoop is an active crime scene. Police are asking that people avoid the area. We’ll have more updates as they…
Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks went to his Facebook page to share some life-changing news. A month ago, the District 9 representative was running the Bolder Boulder when he noticed stiffness in a muscle near his pelvis. A few meetings with doctors later, he found out he had a rare…
After a series of highly publicized acts of violence on the 16th Street Mall, including a recent stabbing and a video of a man being assaulted, the Denver Police Department, Downtown Denver Partnership and the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have unveiled their year-in-the-making plan to maintain order at the city’s No…
Our sophomore year in college, my roommate and I decided to spend spring break on a beach in south Texas. One balmy night at our hotel, the guy interested in my roommate spotted a twelve-pack in the middle of the street. At twenty, we were so desperate for alcohol it…
Much as it was when we first created this list, rent is too damn high in Denver. Median rent is a whopping $2,200, up significantly even from last December, when prices were at $1,950. While more rentals have come online and experts predict a slight cooling in Denver’s magma-hot housing…
The typical silk-shirted, fedora-topped crowd at Dazzle probably isn’t expecting it. It’s late on a recent Thursday, and on a stage usually occupied by Denver’s best jazz ensembles is a 26-year-old from Colorado Springs named Joseph Lamar. Megaphone in hand, he’s screaming the lyrics to the Violent Femmes’ “Gone Daddy…
For the last 22 years the Westword Music Showcase has brought national and local music acts together during the summer. This year’s Showcase is on Saturday, June 25. Coordinating over a hundred performances is tricky and takes months of planning. Ever wonder how we do it? Westword’s music editor Katie Moulton and Showcase…
